AFL-CIO Stands Behind Pilots
Of AMR's American Airlines

WASHINGTON -- The AFL-CIO says it stands squarely behind the 9,300 American Airlines pilots who are threatening a strike, even though the pilots aren't members of the powerful labor federation.

As of Wednesday, however, the American pilots hadn't asked for help from the AFL-CIO. "Our fight is with AMR [Corp.] management," said Tom Kachmar, an American Airlines captain who is a spokesman for the independent Allied Pilots Association, which represents the American pilots. "We don't want to drag everybody else into...